We are want to automate the server creation process as this saves a lot of time. In this article, we are going to talk about some patterns and anti-pattern that cause make your automation better or worse. So let’s start with this. Antipattern: Handcrafted Server Handcrafted servers will generally work well for companies who are
Tag: infrastructure as code
What are the snowflake servers?
Snowflake servers are the server whose actual configuration has drifted far more than what was actually required. These servers can because of big issues as there can be scenarios that you may want to replace the server and you are not aware of what all makes this server still serving and you properly launched new
Reconciler pattern and how terraform uses it.
Reconciler Pattern is used by many cloud-specific tools to perform thier functionalities. In this article we are going to talk about the reconciler pattern. And this is the pattern on which terraform is build. So lets start our article on what is reconciler pattern and how terraform uses reconciler pattern. So reconciler pattern is a
Tooling in Devops: Using Terraform For Automating Infrastructure
This is the start of a new series of articles and this series is known as Tooling in Devops. In these articles, I will talk about tools that can be used in infrastructure, monitoring, logging, alerting and more such stuff. We will see how to use these tool and how they will help you in
Working on Scale: Infrastructure Automation with terraform and chef.
This is the fifth article in series working on scale and in this article we are going to about how to spawn infrastructure fast by using infrastructure as code and provision them using chef. This article is just one of the way how you can automate infrastructure creation. There can be many simultaneous solutions to